First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Meat of the matter
After dolphin-friendly tuna now we have cheetah-friendly beef. The Cheetah Conservation Fund (ccf), a supposedly conservation-oriented group, has begun hardselling this product from Namibia; it is
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Tree cheers
For the first time, scientists have compiled a database of gene sequences in a tree. Comprehensive research on trees is a difficult affair given their long lifespan and complex genetic make-up. This
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No safety in numbers
Between Latin America, Middle East and Asia, there are 20,000 tonnes of pesticide poisons waiting to be treated. But the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (fao), which helps clear-up
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Dead end
World heritage site, the Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is known to attract aquatic birds from all over the world every year. This year, however, the nests are all empty, and the
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Foreign made welcome
But India s health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology
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Dot com or dot in
Union Ministry of Communications, India The Union minister of communications Dayanidhi Maran has elaborate plans to increase Internet usage in India. And if he has his way, many Indian
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To sensitive the wealthy
www.first8.org At this year's UN Commission of Sustainable Development's meet in New York (April 19 to 30), progress on millennium development goals (MDGs) related to clean drinking water,
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Fiction imitates life
Movie In the current us election season, Dickie Pilger's website seems quite a model. Here is a candidate extolling state funding of healthcare and stands for protecting the environment.
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News Snippets
• An exhibition of small clay and silicone sculptures in Melipilla, a municipality south of Santiago, Chile demonstrates the effects of indiscriminate pesticide use on crops. The works by
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CPWD: no fly ash zone
This department has a will of its own: ignores government policy for fly ash use